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Day Eighty One (Year Four)

Today was more productive than yesterday, even if I didn't get into the studio until fairly late in the day.  I got the usual Guitar Aerobics lick of the day done.  It was an easy eighth note strumming pattern today, using the same chords as last Sunday's quarter note pattern.  Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the licks are starting from a certain point, and then just building on that as a way to increase difficulty while building confidence.

Then I had a realization and did something sensible about it.  My realization was this: I haven't been as good this week about writing everything down as I work on it.  I'm a few days behind right now.  So, while I need to make a more concerted effort with that, I also know that I've been working on a lot of different stuff lately.  I feel like I'm making definite progress, but also that said progress is a little bit of a hodgepodge right now.  So... I sat down and wrote out everything that I've been working from in the last few weeks, breaking it down into different categories.  Then I added in the things I wanted to include moving forward.

While I've been having good practice sessions, they haven't been as well structured as they probably ought to be.  Tomorrow's goals are this:

1) To get the practice journal caught up.
2) To finish off my "what I'm working on" page, and find a better way to organize my practice sessions.

Pretty sure I'm going to investigate the uke situation, too.

Another good day that could have been better, another learning experience.
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